# The Greatest Trade Ever

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- Authors: [Gregory Zuckerman](https://www.bookquiver.com/gregory-zuckerman)
- Publisher: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4104-315-9
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2010-07-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

Autumn 2008. The world's finances collapse but one man makes a killing. John Paulson, a softly spoken hedge-fund manager who still took the bus to work, seemed unlikely to stake his career on one big gamble. But he did - and The Greatest Trade Ever is the story of how he realised that the sub-prime housing bubble was going to burst, making $15 billion for his fund and more than $4 billion for himself in a single year. It's a tale of folly and wizardry, individual brilliance versus institutional stupidity. John Paulson made the biggest winning bet in history. And this is how he did it.